I admit it, I’m guilty Of eating fast food often . Why do I eat it if I know it's bad for me though? I don't work out and I'm out still considered average with my health and size. Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me" documentary’s purpose has made such a great point that still isn't taken into consideration. He states his facts reminding us that America is obese and has many health problems. The opening of the movie shows kids singing a song together as if they were singing “ring around the rosy” but isn’t they were singing a song that states: “ I like food, you like food McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Pizza Hut” this is so disturbing in so many ways I get him point that kid’s don’t even see the harm in the food and are brainwashed to …show more content…
think it’s perfectly fine. The film itself demonstrates that it is conceivable to consume recklessly at McDonalds and carry on with a solid, ordinary life. Then again, it is still an oily awaken the American method for consuming and slacking off. It may not be the opening call to battle for a hard and fast assault on malevolent corporate empires, yet it is a strike on our inexorably defective lifestyle. I agree with Spurlock’s point that fast food should not be disrespected and taken out of hand, but instead should only be a rewarded gift here and there. Spurlock reminds us of his childhood, his mother cooked every single night and they barely went out.
But when they did it was definitely a surprise. He then states that now everyone else is different and always goes out to eat and going out to eat isn't a surprise anymore. Spurlock already is going to have a negative look on this food industry showing his history. He starts his project because he sees that two American girls were suing McDonald's because of their obesity. But McDonald's told him that they have no evidence that McDonald's was the cause of their obesity and would have to prove it. He takes on the challenge of eating McDonald's three times a day for a month to physically and hopefully mentally prove his point. This is then were Spurlock comes in for his experiment. I disagree with the girls suing McDonald's first off because as in the last story I read "Don't Blame the Eater” David Zinczenko makes a good point stating "isn't that like middle aged men suing Porsche for making them get speeding tickets? Spurlock will consume no less than three meals a day and must consent to super-size it when anybody inquires as to whether he needs to. He won't work out. The normal American makes just a couple of thousand strides a day. With this being said Spurlock gets involved with many specialist to track his health including a doctor and nutritionists. Although this is ridiculous Spurlock begins to prepare for his …show more content…
challenge. This could honestly be a super dangerous experiment, so with Spurlock being this brave I have high respect for him.
Although he grew up eating healthy with his mother as a child his former girlfriend is a vegan chef who almost cooks for him every night as well. If a normal human being who consumes junk food all the time can get these effects then Spurlock is definitely going to get hit harder with the overall effects of the challenge. Again on his McDiet, he was consuming twice as much as he ordinarily consumes — a normal of 5,000 calories consistently — so no big surprise he felt wiped out. As the weeks passed, his wellbeing exacerbated. In the film he portrays his condition, saying he experienced difficulty breathing, got to be hot and felt like he was having heart problems. His specialists agonized over him. One is cited in the film advising the chief to, "Quit doing what you're doing. You're pickling your liver." But Spurlock was so determined he just wouldn’t stop! An alternate specialist proposes he was dependent on the sustenance, on the grounds that his inclination enhanced each time he consumed. Spurlock said he would get cerebral pains that went away the moment he began to consume the nourishment. Following 30 days of the test, he says he increased 24½ pounds, his liver turned to fat and his cholesterol shot up 65 points. This evidence in my opinion is just
amazing. I believe Spurlock offered the most effective argument against fast food restaurants, because he himself actually went out and challenged himself to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner at McDonalds for a month. He supersized everything every time and also tried everything on the menu. With him doing this it gives evidence rather than facts. His evidence was crucial by the ninth day he was becoming very depressed. He explains that he definitely felt addicted because he would eat the food and feel absolutely fine then about halfway through he would begin to receive headaches. He also experienced a hard time waking up. With him explaining this it really does show evidence how horrible this food really is. With myself eating fast food once a week I believe I myself have received a few of the symptoms he’s experienced. Fast food is not good for you at all and Americans need to understand this because it is effecting our health tremendously in a rapid way. Overall it’s us or them, kill McDonalds or it kills us. Spurlock’s experiment actually did make a point and now today the Super-Size meals are not an option. Spurlock asks where personal responsibility ends and corporate responsibility begins. We can debate corporate responsibility, but the important point is that personal responsibility never ends. Although Spurlock makes a great point, I myself will never eat McDonalds 3 times a day for a month and will consider hoping on a treadmill here and there instead. His point may take a while to digest just like your food or even gain a loss of appetite, but at the end it’s all worth it to consider a healthy lifestyle and change of eating habits.
Fast food, while a quick alternative to cooking, has always been known to be less healthy than traditional preparations, but the extent of its health benefits or detriments was not known until a lawsuit came out which inspired documentarian Morgan Spurlock to engage in a 30 day experiment. The resultant documentary specifically targeted McDonald’s, the largest fast food chain in the world, which also happens to be a major recipient of lawsuits linking obesity and their food. Spurlock endeavored to spend a thirty day period eating nothing but food that came from the golden arches, with the rules that he would supersize only when asked, and every time he was asked, and that he would have everything from the menu at least once. In the 2004 film Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock explores the concept that McDonald’s contributes to the nation’s obesity problem through the utilization of statistics and scientific evidence as a logical appeal, comedy and repulsive qualities as an emotional appeal, and s...
When people consume supersized fast food meals, is the food to blame when they themselves become supersized? Morgan Spurlock takes on the challenge of eating only McDonald's every day, three times a day, for thirty days straight to see how these meals affect the physique and general health of the human body. The Film Supersize Me uses logos, pathos, and ethos to effectively persuade the audience that eating fast foods, namely McDonald's, has horrible side effects. McDonald's is one of the most popular fast food restaurants across the country with some of the most sugar and calorie packed foods. In America, that spells trouble since the smaller sized items tend to be the largest sizes in other countries across the globe.
The United States of America has long been considered a “big nation”, whether is has the biggest cities, houses, and on a negative note, biggest people. In 2003, Morgan Spurlock, a healthy-bodied film director, set on a quest to show America the detrimental effects of the fast food industry and raise awareness on the controversial issue. He produced the documentary “Supersize Me”, where McDonald’s meals were consumed for every meal of the day for thirty days. His film was released to movie theatres so that people could understand the devastating effects of McDonald’s on his body in a very short time span. At the end of his experiment, Morgan gained twenty-five pounds, developed a thirteen percent body mass increase, cholesterol skyrocketed immensely, and fat accumulation in his liver rose to. He became depressed and he only felt happy and in no pain when he was eating the fast food. By using ethos, logos, and pathos, “Supersize Me” became one of the most watched documentaries in the United States. Without these appeals, this documentary would not have developed the effect that it did.
Kingsolver asserts that this lack of a food culture is the cause of America’s obesity epidemic, supporting her assertion with statistics that state that we produce twice as many calories as we need. Kingsolver also describes the process by which almost all of the produce, such as corn and soy, are turned into oils or fed to livestock in factory farms. Those high calorie oils make their way into all of our foods, especially into junk foods. Junk food ads specifically target children, and yet when the children become obese, it is portrayed as a “failure of personal resolve”, leaving the companies producing the
While the film Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock replicates the eating habits of what he believes are “average” americans, Fat Head by Tom Naughton on the other hand dives in deeper into the physiology behind the ingestion of food and replicates a more believable eating habit of an average American. Both films try to teach people about nutrition and change issues about either the government or companies such as McDonald’s, however one film proves to be more accurate and honest out of the both films. Fat Head not only disproves Morgan Spurlock’s film, but also shows how the government has been lying to all the American consumers the whole time by showing what professionals know about nutrition and showing facts to support his claims.
In the documentary “Supersize Me” by Morgan Spurlock, America’s obesity issue was exposed and pinpointed at one of the giant contributor and fast food marketer “McDonald's”. Throughout the documentary, many rhetorical devices were utilized to provide reasons as to how America’s obesity issue is dangerous and how Mcdonald's and major food companies contribute to this disaster in the American society. Drastic continuance of unhealthy eating habits on top of an increasingly growing population calls for an alarm to everyone. He then stresses the dangers of obesity and addresses the issue’s cause. Morgan creates a strong visual and effective argument that eating fast food is the key reason to America’s obesity issue.
Super-size was a 2004 documentary film directed and stared in by Morgan Spurlock, who wanted to prove that like cigarettes, fast food “McDonalds” is just as harmful to The American population of the United States. He got the idea from two girls who were in a lawsuit with McDonalds, They blamed “McDonalds” for having gained so much weight, and they were also blaming “McDonalds” for corrupting their eating habits. The lawsuit failed and that was the reason Spurlock, decided to take on his 30 day diet of “McDonalds” food eating it (meals) three times a day, to show the probability he would gain a lot of weight and prove a significant point to “the citizens of United States of America.”
Morgan Spurlock decided to make this documentary to investigate the fast food companies, and the effects of certain fast food chains products, particularly McDonalds, on the health of society. This Documentary explores the United States growing epidemic of obesity and diabetes as well. Morgan decides to eat nothing but McDonald's food for thirty days. He must eat one of everything on the menu at least once, and when asked to super size his meal he must do so. Another stipulation of Morgan's experiment is that he can only take 5,000 steps a day to replicate the exercise that most average Americans get on a daily basis. He must also eat three meals a day, no exceptions and if McDonalds doesn't serve it Morgan can't eat it.
This documentary takes a look at how our school’s lunch programs and government play a role in the spread of obesity across the nation. The film really attempts to drive home the idea that our children are being immorally brainwashed into wanting unhealthy foods. At some points of the film, it appears that the director uses big companies and school lunches as a scapegoat for our nations crisis. It is a valid point that our nation’s children are being
... the health risks that are caused from eating McDonald's and other fast food, Spurlock incorporates many visual and textual pieces into this documentary. This includes documenting his personal life throughout the experiment and his final health analysis graph from the start to the end. He also includes many instances of evidence to help support his argument. He includes his own personal experience, the experience from other individuals, and expert testimonies. By including all of this, Spurlock was able to justify his reasoning towards criticizing the fast food restaurants for their role in the obesity epidemic. The techniques used by Morgan Spurlock is very effective in detailing the causes and effects of obesity in order to make people more aware of the situation.
David Zinczenko states numbers and facts that open the eyes of his reader along with state his position of how fast food states no warnings that it could make someone obese or develop type 2 diabetes. His first statement is telling his readers a little background about how fast food affected his life and how he was once obese because he consumed such meals. Zinczenko explains how the increase in diabetes (specially type 2) were linked to the high consumption of fast food meals. He then goes on to address how much money is being spent to help take care of the mass amount of children with type 2 diabetes, showing how the price has gone up substantially over the past couple decades. The author then claims how the restaurants don’t give any healthy alternative and how its easier to find a McDonalds in American than an healthy alternative such as fruit. To wrap up the article he shares how he feels that obese kids who sue these fast food restaurants have good ground to do so since these places don’t put warnings on their foods; From Zinczenko himself “I say, let the deep fried chips fa...
The purpose of Morgan Spurlock’s experiment was to see if eating McDonald’s food could affect your health. He got the idea to do this experiment from two girls who sued McDonald’s because of their obesity. One girl, nineteen years old weighing almost three-hundred pounds, and the other girl, fourteen years old almost weighing close to two-hundred pounds. There was no proof that McDonald's food was the reason of the girls poor health and obesity. This resulted in Morgan doing a thirty day experiment by only eating McDonald’s food. He wanted to see if fast food influenced his health. Throughout the movie you can see the drastic changes it did to his body.
In 1921, during the beginning of the Roaring 20’s decade, the first fast food chain restaurant was established and opened to the people. For the next 100 years, flapper dresses and jazz music began being replaced by cheap, chemically modified burgers and thus, the rise of obesity. Questions then began to emerge about the possible link between the consumption of fast foods and a person’s health. Were these well-loved and profitable chain companies causing obesity in both children and adults? Finally, in 2004, Morgan Spurlock decided to figure it out himself. In his informative documentary, “Supersize Me”, Spurlock, both director and producer, decides to solely eat McDonald's for every meal, every day, for thirty days to see if fast food restaurants
Super Size Me is a 2004 documentary film when Morgan Spurlock engages a social health experiment to see the mass effect on a person who eats McDonald’s for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for one month. In the process, his weight, energy level plummets and experiences all sorts of unexpected and terrifying side effects. He also examines the corporate giant's growing role in the lives of American consumers and explores its methods of young people and its contribution to America's obesity epidemic. The condition of the experiment is that Morgan Spurlock can only eat food from the McDonald's corporation. The health issue that is presented during the “McDiet” was obesity epidemic. According to the most recent data, adult obesity rates now exceed 35
Super-Size Me showed how one of the most popular fast food restaurants around today may be leading future generations to severe health problems. First, my personal reaction to this documentary is an eye opener. I knew McDonalds was more harmful than other fast food places, but I never knew about the lawsuit between McDonalds and its consumers. I never saw McDonalds as having a big impact on my life; this is probably because the McDonald’s in my hometown never had a super-size option. In the video, Spurlock conducted interviews to gain multiple perspectives on what kind of people eat McDonald’s food.... ...